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Show horroratbirminohanHI Total Death List Now Stands at One Hun- l H w V 'Its iiH-; dred and Ten List of Injured VH iH! Very Large. jpfl H' Pm HI Ninety Bodies llavt Been IdentifiedSeveral Bodies of Person) 'Aijl 1B' Crushed in the Panic Pound Lying In Wends In Vacant lot 'jjJ H H Adjoining Church Where, With Crushed Breasts, They Had 'Pfl tHj Crawled Away to Die. f ill ijHiy mm lllrmlnRlmm. Ala Sept W The negro population of Hlrmlngham is In mourning and a gloom has been cast over the entire Slate us the people begin be-gin to realise lhe Immensll) of last nights appalling disaster at Hhliiih Hnptlst church Up to 10 u clock tonight the number of dead had reai h 111), nn I ninety of those have been Identllled A largo majorlt) of vlitlms of the stampede stam-pede were residents of Hlrinlnghnm, and ns fast ns the undertakers i an prepare pre-pare theli Imdlen for Inspection they are bolus: Identllled The Injured negroes ne-groes ate being arrd for In the various vari-ous Imspltitls and In private lesldeniea All will prnlmbl) teniver 1 NMtLE TO HANDLE 1IODIES The undoltnkeis who prepared bodies or the in groes for inula! hive been unable un-able tn handle lhe victims nnd nun) ot the hn.tlcn hit still matterid over lhe lloors of these plai es Two of the undertakers, un-dertakers, being nimble to care for the remains In tlulr establishment!! have laid them nut In moms on the Moor ut thet- stables Ctiiw.ls nf tl. glues throng the nlleis lending Into the va-i va-i Ions morgues mid In that portion of lhe ilt) the walling of wnini n emild billiard bi-lliard nil .In) As fust ns the bo lies .an be il reeled and plmed In i iilllns the) nre moved to the homes of relatives, rela-tives, and at IhihI lift) funerals are expected ex-pected lo be held tomorrow. prominiim' Ni:mtoi:s ri:.i. Theodore Price of New Orleans, whose name appears In the list of tho dead was most worshipful grnnd mister mis-ter nf the grand lodge of negro Masons of Louisiana, und was well known throughout the United Hlnles Snrnh Pe) ton of New Orleans whose name nln.1 utipoura In the list of ileul, waa will known ns tin uillve luli-ilun iry , winker JudM' J II Rillou of llilllmore. tho lawver who Is said lo hive prn Ipltati'd ' the letib h) eni'ncliiK In an niter, ullon with Illcks. the clinli leader, Iiiih been ui rested nnd la In Jail, i burped with disturbing- public vvoishlp. Hicks has not been loeuted MLSHAfli: PROM H004t:VI'LT. Honker T Washington hns received lhe following telegram fiom Pusldent Roosevelt In regai.l lo tho ills inter. 1 mn shocked nnd horrified by the disaster nt Hlrmlngham, and deHre tn esprosa my gtent grief ut tho sad loan of life" In the list of dead there are slxl)-llve slxl)-llve Illrmliic,ham iiegrneH, amiiiig whom aio the Rev JiiniiM Ki Uy and Dr. A. I, Hill 'I he in ijorll) nf those from Hlrmlngham Hlrm-lngham who wero killed were women Tho linldeutlllid dead lire supposed to be those nt people from out nt lhe city who mine tn attend the ncgio Hnptlst cnnventlon Th" undertaking establishments wero crowded this morning with hundiedtof F ' )M liersous mostl) delegates lo the nntfon- ' D lfll H al negro llaptlat .nnveiitlon, searching .. "Upfi H for missing friends and relntlvcs who ', ymfl might have been killed lu the stampede. t am H innn in Tin; wr.iuis K H After midnight list night severil j3l H bodies of p. i sons who were crushed In jip 1 H the panic were round lying In the weeda I Vffi H in the vacant lot adjolntng the church. V II H Thev hid si rambled nut nf the mas i jl B of struggling bum. mil) with Inokcn y H limbs in crushed biennis and had '!(' i)lsH crawled away In this manner to die til sssB NO Wllims KILLLD 'n H Investlgiillon shows Ihnt no whlto 1 tlilll iiaisH lieoplo were killed A number of vvhlto iMH H vlsllors were In the chinch at the time, I nn H and several of them were hurt In tho i I! Ill K wild scramble, but none will die. UlB H POL1CILMAN HADt.Y HURT li'S HlBIBll Pollieniuii l'.lledge, who was standing ! 1 ltM B at the exit euleiivorliiK to Millet tho 1 JBB H crowd, was iiiugbt between the moving; CltH hbH iiiultltudo anl the vvnll In the n irrow U 'IlIjB B pissagewai lending down to the stairs. t ialfH H nnd nearly nil his clothing was torn jj' NMH HHH from Ida bod). His legi wero nlso 11 K'lWW H ii.ushed, but he will reiovcr His cf- ?jM HH fotts to .inlet the ctnwd wiro utterly LiillKEj ssH futile, and nut until he Hie department 91 tK B and u large number of olllecrs arrived flJJA ' QV H 'on the scene vvns un) thing like order ft iiji IB J lestiued Then II was found that proe- j 'M I Hi all) everybody had imttcn nut ot tho 1,.. j jjVH building Shjlf.r Blal ATTHMPT TO HP.STORi: ORIinil. jUijMl i H Those nearest lhe npeaker'n stnnd trhjfj p VAVJ stnnd sieme.l to uubkly leallto that ySfiij E H there was no lire and no nccaslon for a, M.ex) 1 H )Mitlc Tlm speaker and lenders pnsBCd lllljffv iswsVsl outside through a door In the rear ot ft" lit,' ' HHJ the piilll, where the) addressed tho StLtSIla. I aVMH wild mob nt slrurgllng liumiinlty In nn Vp.fwJ J earnest effort lo restore order Hooker IT ifi 1 T Washington vvns nmong the. number, 11 if HHJ but even his vvnrdn fell uimn dent cars. P lly n k DIHI) I'ROM SOFPOCATION jit' li fl H An examlnntlon of the liodles of tho tlj''r4 ifl VBVJ victims show that very many of them U HVh JB had dlcil from suffocation, the rouges- ML wlJaM H tlon In tho vestibule nnd pissagewny is'TtfftiJjnl H win re the crush occurred being so IfiVwIslliS VAl grent Tlioie who received liodlly In- ISi.ffilTlMl B Jitrlei were lhe nnes who were crushed ilftiirlllH nnd trampled under foot Many had m'iJKcfjl B br.iken limbs, and one negro Ihn vv him- iHiMlEB self over lhe heads of tho riowd nnd Ml.fJIIMl HH hid bis In nl il dashed out ngalnst tho IiU'iliU jjhI wall. OFliM sVsH ill.OOM OVI'.R CONVENTION 111 Ufirl There was a Rloom over the Nntlonal I'lJHiil sVswsi Negro Hnptlst convention when It was JiitRf$&fil BVI called lo ordi r today, caused by last ltffjl.i li9 night's cilniulty Solemn song nnd BLi.ltefjN prn)tr service was held for the dead. iM$l?ifjl swaVi nml Dr Morris mule an nppeeil for tho iirtltiniilM BBJI faiulllcH nt tho dead nnd Injured. A IKfl'lJtAl M larc,c sum was collided. l8M.lt BB H |
